Platinum Play Bingo are offering a unique way to savour your lucky bingo number by offering you the chance to win up to £50,000 in their new ”Bingo Ball For Life” jackpot.

The Jackpot can be won when you complete bingo on your chosen Bingo Ball for Life number. E.g. if your Bingo Ball for Life is the number 21, the last number called that completes your full house has to be 21.

The jackpot starts at £1,000 increasing by £1,000 every week if it is not won. If the Jackpot gets up to £50,000 without being won, the jackpot will be paid out to those that came the closest and then will be reset to £1,000.

To register your personalised bingo ball for life, you have to have an account with Platinum Play Bingo, which is really siple to do. All you do is fill in a quick application form, choose a nickname and away you go (take a note of the account number you are given though, you need it to register your bingo ball for life!).

So once you have picked your ball, you get to personalise it too with crazy hair, eyes and mouth. I think it adds a lot of fun and colour to the game. I cant wait to get cracking with mine!!!

On reading through the weekend news, a story of a big bingo win grabbed my attention becasuse of its location.

A lucky winner at the Gala Bingo in Byker, Newcastle bagged herself an amazing £320,000. This story caught my eye because that is where i am from and it really hit home that you can win whatever your location!!

The lady- who does not want to be named- won the platinum jackpot prize that was standing at £311,966 on the night, the national jackpot prize of £6,890,  the regional prize of 1,220 and Gala Bingo’s own in house prize of £615!

Looking through the news this morning a story caught my attention of a mugging of an 86 year old after leaving his local bingo club.

Mr Lees had a lucky night and won £1,000 whilst playing bingo at his local Mecca Bingo Club, however once he left the club he was mugged.   

The muggers shoved Mr Lees in the back before pushing him to the ground. They then stole the winnings and left him on the ground.  Mr Lees received hospital treatment for injuries to his face and bruising.

In a statement Mr Lees said ” It wasn’t only my face that has been hurt but I feel as if my pride has too. Whoever did this is just a coward, they attacked me from behind and I’m an old man.”

Speaking about the attack he says “Immediately as I left the bingo hall someone jumped on me from behind I hit my head on the floor. These cowards knew exactly what pocket my money was in as they went straight for it.”

Mr Lees went on to say “Why should I let these cowards bother me? I’ve been playing bingo every Sunday for 20 years; this will not stop me playing bingo.”

Lets hope that the muggers are caught and the incident does not leave Mr Lees unable to carry on with his normal routine.

A lucky winner at Mecca Bingo in Basingstoke has won more than £10,000. The win could not have come at a better time as £10,500 is quite a lot of money when you have just had a baby

Susan Ralph, who is on maternity leave after giving birth in January, was shocked when she managed to scoop the win on the High 5 game at Mecca Bingo at Basingstoke Leisure Park. 

Mrs Ralph, 28, plans on buying herself a new car and treating the children.

Mrs Ralph only started to go to her local Mecca Bingo club because it was a great way to socialise with her friends without having to drink while she was pregnant. 

A lady has won a combination of several jackpots while playing at a Carlisle Bingo Club, totalling an impressive £70,392 and has vowed to share the winnings with her sister in law.

Carol White, has a long standing agreement with her sister-in-law to share all bingo wins equally – a deal that she intends to stick following her impressive win.

The £70,392 prize is made up of three jackpots – the house prize of £112, the regional prize of £3,200, and the national prize of £67,080.

On her win Carol said “We were both really excited. We have never won that kind of money before. The place was in uproar – everyone was cheering. I retire next year and have a big family. I want to give them something and have a good holiday.”

She went on to say that both she and her sister in law will carry on playing every Sunday night.

Mecca Bingo played host to the one of the biggest payouts, where a very lucky player won a bingo prize of £639,000. The woman, who wants to remain anonymous works as a hospital administrator and is married with two children and has three grandchildren.

At the realisation of the enormity of the win, it is claimed that she had asked for a brandy or two for the shock and to let it sink in. Her husband had thought that she had won £639, but was pleasantly surprised on realising his mistake.

The winning lady has been playing bingo at Mecca Bingo since the foundation of the company in 1993 and to date, this is their largest single payout.

A 79 year old pensioner struck it lucky this week with a £27,000 bingo win. 

She plans to use the money to help her family, including eight children, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She said: ‘It hasn’t really sunk in yet. I’ve never had that kind of money in my life. I have a big family, and this will really help them. If there’s any left over, I’d like a holiday in Tenerife or Benidorm’

Ada Borrowdale won the jackpot at the Opera Bingo Club in Penrith. When her final number was drawn, Ada was in such a state of shock that a friend had to shout on her behalf.

She added: “They wouldn’t believe me at first. They thought I was joking.”

She had been playing at the Penrith club for 10 years when she scooped the National Bingo prize.

Opera manager Ethel Nicholl said: “It’s very exciting when you have a big win in the club. Everyone is really happy for her.”

A 58-year-old woman from Wrexham has won more than £18,000 whilst playing bingo at the Mecca Club in Smithfield Road.

The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, is to share the cash with her sister after making a deal to split any winnings.

She won the National Bingo Game prize of £15,710 plus the regional prize of £2,069 and the house prize of £270. The national prize was £31,420, but it had to be shared with a player in South Shields, who also completed a full house in 45 numbers.

“It was very exciting when I realised how much I had won but it shocked the life out of my sister. It’s very much appreciated,” the winner said, adding: “I’m going to splash out on a special holiday with my husband, cruising round the Greek islands to celebrate our anniversary.”

A lucky lady playing bingo in her local Gala club in Irvine has won herself a massive £247,364.05 on the clubs high Five Game.

Not only was this grandmother laughing all the way to the bank but all the members at the club that were playing bingo when she won saw their bank balances increase by £1,126.69 as well.

The High Five game paid out a whopping £468,728.11 with all the players getting a share of half the jackpot. Duty Manager of the Gala Bingo hall, Sandra Mullen, said “Originally not many members like the High 5 game now I don’t think we have any members that don’t buy a ticket. This win is the biggest to date in our club”.

Gala Bingo are withdrawing all their land based bingo clubs from the National Bingo Game from 1st September to concentrate on the High 5 Game.

Here is how the High 5 game works - Basically it’s a link game throughout all the Gala Bingo clubs and the jackpot if not won just keeps getting bigger and bigger. If a player calls bingo on a number that ends in a 5 i.e. 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85 then they get half of the bingo jackpot whilst the other half is shared amongst all the bingo players in the club.

A Huge congratulations to TAYLYN08 who scooped the £1500 Cheetah Jackpot in Crown Bingo’s 3rd Room with CM Jazzy this weekend!

Lynne Taylor from Wallsend bagged the jackpot by getting the full house in 38 calls playing Speed Bingo in Room 3!

What is the Cheetah Jackpot?
The Cheetah Jackpot is one of Crown Bingo’s Speed Bingo (Room 3) Jackpots and you can win it today by getting a Full House in under 40 calls! It is worth a fantastic £1,500 and as speed bingo is so fast you could be a Cheetah Jackpot Winner before you know it!

 So go along and check out Crown Bingo and see if you could be a lucky jackpot winner too!!